Need help formatting a Quantum LP240S hard drive.

[DoomMaster]

Hello Amiga Fans,

I need help formatting a Quantum LP240S hard drive.  What are the parameters that I need to type into HDToolkit?

Cylinders:
Heads:
Blocks Per Track:
Blocks Per Cylinder:

Are blocks the same thing as tracks?     :nervous:

[6]

Your HDToolBox should read the parameters for you.  
When in "Partition Drive", click "New Partition".  That should do it.

[DoomMaster]

I am using Kickstart / Workbench 1.3.  HDToolBox does NOT read in the correct number of heads (which is 4).  Because of this, I think that it throws off the Blocks Per Track and Blocks Per Cylinder too.  The Quantum Web Site states that the LP240S has 1818 Cylinders and 4 Heads, but has nothing about blocks.  The number of 512 byte sectors is 479,350, which HDToolBox did pick up.  Is there a web site that lists all of the Amiga SCSI hard drive parameters for HDToolBox?  If there is not, there should be.     :roll:

[Markus_Bieler]

For scsi-devices the amount of heads and cylinders doesn't count. ONLY the amount of sectors is important. And 479 350 divided by 2 gives 239 675 sectors with 1024 bytes. And that is a LP240s (HD manufacturer count a sector as 1000 bytes.)

[melott]

I don't know if this will help...
there are a couple of good HD formatting prgs.
on Aminet. "RDP391.lha" and "HDinst.lha"
I don't know if they will run in OS 1.3 but
they look like they might. If they'll run it
would probably solve your problem, make life much
easier.

Mel Ott

[DoomMaster]

Don't any of you guys have this drive in your Amiga?  Just look at it in HDToolBox and give me those parameters.  I need:

Cylinders:
Heads:
Blocks Per Track:
Blocks Per Cylinder:

Thanks     :crazy:

[Framiga]

Hi DOOM!

download HDInstTool

Your disk should be a 234MB (formatted)

Run HDInstTool, click on "Setup drive" and make an "Inquiry" from the menu. . . . even if i'm sure that you already know all that :-)

Ciao!

[DoomMaster]

I am using Kickstart / Workbench 1.3 on an Amiga 2000HD computer. The hard drive is a Quantum 240 meg SCSI hard drive attached to a Commodore A2091 SCSI Controller Card. Comeon folks, this is a very simple question and none of you guys have answered it correctly! If any of you have a Quantum LP240S in your Amiga, give me the parameters:

Cylinders:
Heads:
Blocks Per Track:
Blocks Per Cylinder:

The first person to answer this question correctly will get $10.00 CASH from me !     :-D

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DoomMaster wrote:
The first person to answer this question correctly will get $10.00 CASH from me !     :-D

WTF is wrong with you? Why not just download the util framiga suggested and get the info yourself?  :whack:

[DoomMaster]

To fragment:

Because it is compressed with a newer version of LHA and I only have an older version of LHA.  I downloaded the new version of LHA, but some stupid f**k compressed the actual LHA program with LHA!  To all Web Masters: [color=FF0033]NEVER COMPRESS THE ACTUAL LHA PROGRAM![/color]  Leave it as an EXE file, so people can use it to uncompress other files.     :-o

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DoomMaster wrote:
To fragment:

Because it is compressed with a newer version of LHA and I only have an older version of LHA.  I downloaded the new version of LHA, but some stupid f**k compressed the actual LHA program with LHA!

Well, try this then.

[seer]

Doom,

For a sm@rt@$$ you're pretty stupid, but try lha.run and run it... Works fine...

Maybe this,
this or
this helps

[Markus_Bieler]

Bwelieve me. It doesn't matter how many heads etc your drive has. Only the amount of sectors is imkportant,so if HD-Toolbox gets this number correct (or a litle less than the correct number) you are on the saveside. SCSI drives a intelligent drices, they know how todeal with heads and cylinder, only the total amount of sectors is important.

[DoomMaster]

To Markus_Bieler:

Where do I type this into HDToolBox?  Thanks     :-?

[Markus_Bieler]

Perhaps this helps you:

http://info.star.spb.ru/Hardware/TheRef/hard_drives/h_pro_drive_lps-240s.html